I Finally Used the Iron September 10, 2008

The stove top pizzelle iron that is.

It has taken me almost 2 months to get enough courage to use the stove top pizzelle iron that I bought from Fantes. The whole process actually went quite well and as soon as the iron got properly heated it didn’t take time to make all the pizzelles. At first when I was making the first few they came out great, but then the next couple actually started to stick to the iron. I realized that I wasn’t heating both sides evenly and as soon as I started to heat both sides consistently there was no more sticking.

It’s coming….. July 10, 2008

Today my stove top Pizzelle iron arrives.

Pizzelle Iron via Fante's in Philly

I am so excited. I ended up going with the metal handled model since it reminded me of my childhood. The bad thing is that I will be at work when it gets here, so I won’t be able to play with it until tomorrow.

IT’S COMING….YAY!!!!!! :screaming like a little girl, along with jumping:

I love kitchen gadgets July 7, 2008

I can’t help it. Every time I see a new kitchen gadget or something that I am looking for I can’t help but buy it. The newest item on that list I found online at Fante’s Kitchenwares Shop. It is a pizzelle iron. Not the ones that you plug into the wall….oh no, not that…a stove top one.

:I scream like a little girl:

I have wanted one of these ever since my grandmother (from here on out referred to as Grandma) told me that that is how her mom used to make them. I called Grandma the other day to ask what kind of iron that my great grandmother had: metal or wooden handles. Of course the response was metal, and then she proceeded to ask me to buy her one too.

So now I have to decide. Do I want one with metal or wooden handles? The difficult part for me isn’t the handles. I have been looking at the design that each makes and it is different. I think the design for the metal handled iron is what I used to see when I was a kid and Grandma’s neighbor use to make us Anise Pizzelles.

So begins my internal debate.

Once I purchase the iron, I will post pictures and the adventure of making pizzelles with a stove top iron.

This is going to be interesting.